I knew a guy in college who claimed that Fight Club was the most important movie ever made, and he’d try and hit on girls with the line, “This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.”

It’s playing this weekend at the Egyptian, a movie about a nameless thirtyish yuppie who escapes from his boring life with the help of a soap salesman named Tyler. The two set up fight clubs which eventually escalate into a group that performs acts of anti-corporate vandalism. It’s based off the book by Chuck Palahniuk, who, rumor has it, liked the ending of the movie better than the one he wrote. It stars Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, and Helena Bonham Carter.

A lot of people got in fights and became glossy nihilists after this movie came out, and everyone seemed to fall into either the camp where they thought it was the greatest movie ever or the camp where they wondered why people want to see grown men beat the hell out of each other. I’m still in that latter camp, myself, although I highly enjoy Carter’s character. Just don’t be inspired to start up fights outside the Egyptian, please–Capitol Hill is seeing enough of that sort of thing these days.

Fight Club plays Friday and Saturday nights at midnight. The Egyptian is at 805 East Pine St.